Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps

September 12, 2016 @ 6:25 am

"[Mom] bursts with tales which are unvarnished, unhappy, humorous, clever, and so much of all, very real." -Chicago Tribune (Editor's selection)

Featuring StoryCorps' such a lot revealing tales at the topic, Mom seems to be throughout a variety of expertise to provide a wholly unique portrait of motherhood. In conversations among mom and dad and young children, husbands and other halves, siblings and associates, the lifetime of the American mom unfolds. In those tales of profound pleasure and disappointment, braveness and depression, fight and triumphs, we examine new truths approximately that almost all primal and sacred of bonds-the dating among mom and baby. With this very important contribution to the yankee storybook, StoryCorps has created a tribute to moms that honors the which means of kin and the expansiveness of the human heart.

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